One of my first story assignments as an agricultural journalist was covering a liquidation auction of repossessed farm machinery in Columbia, Missouri. It was late summer 1985, and the 1980s farm ...
Recent used farm equipment auction activity shows a market gaining momentum and stability with harvest and the fall auction busy season just over the horizon. Machinery Pete witnessed that renewed ...
If you know farming, you know Machinery Pete. For the (very) few not familiar, Machinery Pete ( MachineryPete.com) is the fastest growing and largest marketplace for used farm equipment, offering an ...
SPARTA — Greg Peterson, the used farm equipment guru known as "Machinery Pete," has a simple answer when asked about the meteoric rise in market values in recent years. There just hasn’t been a lot of ...
People are venturing out into a mostly normal world again as the COVID-19 pandemic eases. But the reverberations of the shutdown are still showing up—and in some relatively unexpected places. Just as ...
ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Greg Peterson has been charting auction prices before they were accessible on the World Wide Web, and he's never seen anything like this. Due to a surge in online auction ...
Used machinery experts say farmers better get used to it. With the ethanol industry boosting the price of cash corn to more than $3.50 per bushel recently, millions of extra corn acres are expected to ...
Seven factors which influence the decision to sell or exchange used farm machinery are identified and a procedure to determine the more profitable alternative is presented. An example based upon the ...
Do you have a small tractor, seeder or baler collecting dust beside your barn? It could be put to good use helping farmers overseas. That's the message of Tractors for Peace, a nonprofit seeking small ...